Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8823edd06affb611…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 04:03:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 97e16bc681bb7bc87ed54832f4a3c019 SHA-1: 68560432031a05f5ca97c8ffd7505c88fe7201be SHA-256: 8823edd06affb611d6c16a438a2bc0eea0ce40a2ef4d817ec804d4f6ddf03cda
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses an urgency-based lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wringer+comprehension+questions+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://jacksonreunion.org/clients/71346/File/kodapodevaneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f040d5ecdb8---waxopegatugatoganowijaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afad73c9685---17347046590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kor-ra.ru/UserFiles/file/wujupopidavalisiwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/xejopopejamuxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a7936ea6f---36217223009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/dejobuzaxezalisobelinosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielfelber.ch/userfiles/file/texufaxijum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cd1900846937e2285c0ef43ddd2634d/34495288568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/msf4b3k4fo77d1dikmghh3pp8f/45997582626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr-bang.com/uploadfiles/20210715133507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvuketoansg.com/luutru/files/68708969886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoyi-chuck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acda84123af---2666816370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/76161923279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-6/file/47795667166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0f6f49db7ed4d072c3276c908641c66/sidelifetepikegutijasug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j87hoqij1udvqe3pvkeki0av6s/61175221865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdeafa8ed4fc472f0bd6deeb3fa54450/64250513681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f84e6486b---48816127664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharmtocairo.com/userfiles/files/23170431240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e178.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE178 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f98f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98F 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 51ad7a5a2e7f2fad50ce54efd2b689c358f4ef315e8e6ed0263c1adf63aab3ea
font_02_sfnt_off0001133b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1133B 17996 bytes
SHA-256: 8be4b05b6af246fed33f515edd25c1f31748213fd0ee4d1ad0c455620240dc9b